COLUMBUS MONUMENTS PAGES
Description:
Bust on a marble pedestal with the date 11 OTTOBRE 1492 in a laurel wreath, placed with two marble griffions on a granite base.
Inscriptions:
On the base, front:
center:
A
CRISTOFORO COLOMBO
COGOLETO
to the left:
DEDICATO
NEL
1864
to the right:
ERETTO
NEL
1888
On the right side of the granite base:
CIRCA HAEC TEMPORA
CHRISTOPHORUS COLUMBIS
LIGUR COGORETIO
REPERIT INDIAS OCCIDUAS
CRONACA DI TAGGIA
ANNO 1498
On the left side of the granite base:
R. COLOMBO DI COGOLETO
TANTO GRANDO IN ESPAGNA. . . . .
. . . . . . . . .
IL SENATO DI GENOVA
AD AMB. G. B. DORIA
AMBASCIADORE A MADRID
7 NOVEMBRE 1886
Notes
The marble bust
In 1864 the sculptor Domenico Vassallo showed and offered to the Municipio of Cogoleto this bust. The following years he added a base, and the monument was unveiled in 1888. The detailed story of the monument and its important meaning was written in a book edited in 1888 by the Municipio of Cogoleto.
It is also said that the monument is a gift of the local citizens emigrated to the Americas (north and south).
Source(s):
- Alex Borgogno, "Monuments of Columbus." Discovery! Journal of the Christopher Columbus Philatelic Society vol. 18, no. 1 (12 Jan. 2000): 1235.
- Maurizio Tagliattini, The discovery of North America: a documented history (1991, 1998), chapter on Columbus' origin available on the internet: http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/tagliattini.htmll.
- Information sent by e-mail by "cadma"
- Photos: Peter van der Krogt, 8 August 2001
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